Steinberg Cubase 5 Operation Manual

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Designing your score: additional techniques
Splitting multi-rests
To divide one long multiple rest into several shorter ones, 
proceed as follows:
1.Double-click on the multi-rest symbol.
The Split Multi-Rest dialog appears:
2.In the dialog, enter the bar number where you want the 
first split.
3.Click OK.
If you need more splits, double-click on any multi-rest symbol and pro-
ceed as above.
Multi-rest appearance
The Score Settings–Project page contains several sub-
pages, on which you can make...

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Creating upbeats
By using the Pickup Bar feature
With this method, the upbeat actually contains exactly the 
number of beats displayed. That is, if you have an upbeat 
of one beat, your project starts with one bar in 1/4 time.
1.Change the time signature of the first bar to the length 
of the upbeat.
2.Insert a time signature of the correct kind (the time sig-
nature used throughout the project) in the second bar.
To insert a time signature, select it in...

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Manually
In Page Mode, you have full control over the number of 
bars appearing across the page, by using the Number of 
Bars dialog or the tools. 
ÖIf you want to use the “Max. number of Bars” option in 
the Auto Layout dialog (see “Auto Layout” on page 606), 
you should do this before you adjust the number of bars 
manually.
Using the Number of Bars dialog
1.Make a staff active in the system where you want to 
make changes.
This means that if everything...

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Making an indent on one line
To create an indent, simply drag the first or last bar line 
on a staff.
The sizes of all measures are adjusted proportionally.
Before and after dragging the first bar line on the first staff
Making indents on several lines
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the first or last bar 
line in a system, all following systems will get the same in-
dent. If you want all lines on all pages to be modified in the 
same way, hold...

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Setting the distance between staves within a 
grand staff
1.Locate the lower staff in the grand staff you wish to 
spread apart.
2.Click just to the left of its first bar line and keep the 
mouse button pressed. 
The entire staff gets selected.
3.Drag downwards or upwards and release the mouse 
button.
The new distance is set for the two staves.
Setting the same distance between staves in 
several systems
1.Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the desired...

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3.Close the dialog.
The score is displayed with brackets or braces according to the settings 
you made.
You can edit brackets and braces in the dialog by drag-
ging the ends of the indicator in the list.
To remove a bracket or brace, click on its indicator in 
the list.
ÖYou can automatically get broken bar lines based on 
the brackets you have added – see “Breaking bar lines” 
on page 608.
ÖIf the option “Show Braces in Edit Mode” is activated 
in the...

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All Pages
Activate this if you want to apply the options above to all 
pages. Please note that this setting will be applied to the 
active staff and onwards. If you want all pages in the score 
to be affected, you have to make the very first staff (the 
first staff on the first page) the active staff.
Move Bars and Staves
This is a combination of “Move Bars”, “Move Staves”, and 
“All Pages”, plus automatic calculation of the number of 
bars across the page...

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Breaking bar lines
Sometimes you may not want a bar line to stretch all the 
way across a grand staff. If this is the case, you have the 
possibility to “break it”.
Manually
Breaking bar lines in one grand staff
1.Select the Erase tool.
2.Click on a bar line connecting the two staves.
All bar lines between these two staves (except the first and last) are bro-
ken. To break the first or last bar line in a grand staff, you need to click di-
rectly on these....

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Scoring for drums 

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Scoring for drums
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
 How to set up the drum map.
 How to set up a staff for drum notes.
 How to enter and edit drum notes.
 How to use a single line drum staff.
Background: Drum maps in the 
Score Editor
When scoring for drums, you can assign a unique note 
head to each pitch. There is even the possibility to set up 
different note heads for different note values!
However, to be able to fully use this function, you need to 
understand a bit about drum...